Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance?

If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,

I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.

If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,

Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.

Therefore I say, Hearken to me; I also will shew what I know.

Lo, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasonings, until ye searched out what to say.

That ye may not say, We have found out wisdom; God will make him yield, not man.

Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;

If thou hast anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked?

Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me:

Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order our words by reason of darkness.

Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man so say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Dost thou send forth lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?